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The art of self-soothing

“Often we will describe this flooding stage of rage as ‘losing it.’. . .  So we cultivate what is sometime known as the art of self-soothing.  Soothing can sound self-indulgent, as if we’re coddling ourselves. . . .  In reality, we seek to be calmed by the Word of God.  And eventually our brain will

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“We keep taking the skunks with us.  We get used to them.  Often we think of our character defects as simply the wrong things we did. . . .  But ....

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